%0 Journal Article
%T Anesthesia Management of a Child with Osteopetrosis
%A Fereydoon Fekrat
%A Hashem Jarineshin
%A Mehdi Feiz Dowlat Abadi
%J Archive of "Anesthesia, Essays and Researches".
%D 2017
%R 10.4103/0259-1162.194554
%X Osteopetrosis is a rare genetic disorder of osteoclast dysfunction leading to anatomical and physiological disorders. We present the anesthesia management for the femur fracture of a 4-year-old girl with malignant infantile type of osteopetrosis. She had a ventriculoperitoneal shunt, impaired motion, visual disturbance, growth failure, facial deformity, heart murmur of moderate tricuspid regurgitation, and left ventricular heart failure, with splenomegaly and severe anemia
%K Airway management
%K bone fracture
%K osteopetrosis
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5594813/